When it comes to bookmarking sites I am so disorganised. I start out with cleverly titled folders and every intention to store each bookmark in an orderly fashion. Two days later, it’s a shambles again. So in this post I will plug a few of my favourite internet business blogs and it’ll also act as a means of me bookmarking these sites -some more.

Net Business Blog
Matt Coddington launched this blog at the start of 2007. Since then it’s grown and grown and gone from strength to strength. What I really like about Matt’s site is his case study on the rock’n'roll music blog he’s recently launched. Very informative and inspiring. (Stay tuned as i’ll be launching a new blog as a case study soon, myself!)

Entrepreneurs Journey
What can I say: Yaro Starak is a gun. I don’t know of a site more rich in information about internet business and marketing than his blog, Entrepreneurs Journey. Constantly, he fills us in on his success and progress with BetterEdit and many of his other endeavors. A must see!

College-Startup
College student, Ben Bleikamp’s blog intends to teach students how they can make money on the internet from their dorm-room. He should know; that’s what he’s done. I really enjoyed the article on 5 Steps To Jump-start Your Website.

Have Laptop, Will Travel
This blog isn’t really about internet business but it’ll get a mention as one of my favourite technology blogs. Always seems to feature something exciting. Now that I have “marked it” here I will hopefully check it more often.

Eli Burfords Blog
I stumbled across Eli’s blog whilst looking at an auction for a Photoshop Tutorial site he was selling. Again, not so much about internet business; more web development. He’s very talented, especially for his age.

That’ll do me for now.

Pajago

As I said in my last post, this post will be dedicated to the key terms: domain age, PR, inbound links, traffic rank, indexed pages, site value and estimated Text-Link-Ad value. These are categories featured on the dnScoop.com domain name value tool. Here goes…

Domain Age-

This is the age of the domain name you’re checking. Domain names are like good wine (especially the Australian varieties) -they get better with age. The older your domain name the more highly it is considered by search engines like Google, Yahoo and Live.

PR (PageRank)-

“PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance within the set.”

That’s the geeky (technical) definition of PR. The way I look at PR is simple: the higher the number the more reputable the site and likely, the more backlinks.

Inbound Links-

Is another name for backlink. Either way it means link to your site from another site. These are important as they are really another entry point for visitors and search engine robots. The higher the PR of the site that links to you the better ranking you’re likely to get too.

Traffic Rank-

Is what Alexa ranks your site compared to any other site in the world based on traffic. Take Google for instance, it’s ranked as number three in the world as I type this.

Indexed Pages-

Are the pages that are indexed by the major (and minor) search engines like Google, Yahoo and Live. The more pages you have indexed, the more a search engine can mine through to supply to a search query.

Site Value-

“This value is calculated based on several factors shown above, including: Links, Traffic (Alexa), age of the domain, site category, domain keyword popularity, and overall occurrences of the domain name on the web.”

Text-Link-Ads Value-

Text-Link-Ads is a 3rd-party site that posts text link ads on participating publishers sites for a fee calculated on many of the above variables. Generally, the higher your PR, traffic, this-that-and-the-other, the more you’ll earn per month through Text-Link-Ads.

Today marks day two of this blog. In the past 24-hours the blog has received 30 unique visitors so I am pretty chuffed with that result. Especially seeing I only have one real post uploaded.

In the post I intend to explain my reasoning for this blog and all of that stuff.

If you look around the net at the moment, the keywords: internet business, marketing, internet marketing, technology, yada yada are so heavily used. And here I am making an entry into the land of internet with a site that works those words too -hehe. The way I intend to make my blog different is to convey my opinions at a novice level -which I am.

I only made my first journey into online business last year. I had an idea for a property search site targeting a niche. The plan is still in development unfortunately, but I have learnt a lot.

Since the beginning I have mucked around with a few other sites and a number of domain names and I have even made some money. I intend to see how far I can take my head full of ideas and what becomes of it all. And, as it seems, I am sharing it with the world too…

Another flavour I wish to add to this blog is Australian. I am Australian and see a lack of content about Australian business, internet marketing, technology and the like.

Overall, this blog is about internet business and marketing, technology and the internet, particularly in Australia. Oh, through the eyes of a novice.

Some of the things I am not so novice in are marketing (especially value exchange), telecommunications (especially wireless and data), graphic design and photography. All of these areas will shine through in my posts a little. When it comes to the subject of business overall, I feel I have a good understanding of what’s going on in the world.

Anyway, over and out for now.

Pajago